The Warlord She Left at the Altar

England, 1192. Lady Aveline de Courcy has been the wife of the Marches' wealthiest lord for twelve years and a stranger in his hall. When Rolant de Bracy grants his former betrothed the northern keep and seats her at his right hand, Aveline is expected to keep the feast and count the spoons. Instead she opens the granary books and finds three vills starving to build a keep for another woman. She takes the accounts to the shire court herself and shames her husband before his own vassals. Rolant can protect his steward or his wife. Protecting Aveline will cost him the marriage he was meant to make and the truce his father bought with it. A medieval marriage-in-crisis romance about ledgers, land, and a wife who counted what everyone else overlooked.